Help Fight Poverty: Buy Fairtrade Organic Coffee
Drinking fairtrade organic coffee is one of the best ways to contribute to poverty alleviation all over the world. Fairtrade organic coffee is produced by small farmers in many developing countries all over the world. Most of these farmers are what we call “subsistence” farmers who get barely enough income to feed and clothe their families.
Several of these small coffee farmers live in hinterland areas where development is very slow and life is often very hard. Since farming is the only way of life that most of these people knew, most members of the family work in the family’s coffee farm tending to trees and handpicking coffee beans off the tress from sunrise to sunset.
What is Fairtrade Organic Coffee?
Small coffee farmers often find it very hand to compete with those giant coffee producers. To help these small farmers to compete with bigger and more powerful coffee farmers, international development organizations such Amnesty International, The United Nations, Caritas International and others organized these small farmers into groups and educate them on fair trade strategies. …
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